Leading with Compassion

1 Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003323853-1

This book is about helping you to become your best self and helping those around you to achieve their best. Inherently it’s about authenticity, integrity, and empathy and how these simple traits can lead to high performance. It is unabashedly aspirational. It’s not the way the world always works. It’s the way the world should work, and it’s the way I teach about it in Sunday School. Please come on this journey with me.

In business school, we teach the transactional tools one needs to work in business. We teach various strategic planning and decision-making models such as SPACE or SWOT or decision trees or weighted grids. We teach about the various functions of an organization. We teach financial ...